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English

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Etymology

From Middle English musical, from Old French , from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica (“music”) +‎ -ālis (suffix forming adjectives); equivalent to music +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmju.zɪ.kəl/
  • Audio (US)(file)

Adjective

musical (comparative more musical, superlative most musical)

  1. Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.
    musical proportion
    musical instruments
  2. Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious.
    She had a musical voice.
  3. Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music.
    having a musical ear
    The child is musical.
  4. Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions.
    • 1962, Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 34:
      Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
    • 2004, Mike Bright, A Dream Realized: A Collection of Poems by Cowboy Mike Bright, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 341:
      Musical seats upon an airplane is not a game I recommend.
    • 2006, Evelyn Palfrey, The Price of Passion, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 441:
      “Sounds like y'all are playing musical houses. How did you convince your mama to move to Austin?”
    • 2011, Leonard James Schoppa, The Evolution of Japan's Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 14:
      Parties were splitting, forming, merging, and dissolving in such rapid succession that the game of musical chairs seemed to describe what was going on better than any known theory of political science.
    • 2014, Tyler McMahon, Kilometer 99: A Novel, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 138:
      Among my small circle of college friends, and even more so among the volunteers here, couples are so often changing places, people playing musical lovers.

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Noun

musical (plural musicals)

  1. A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.
    • 2004, Steven Adler, On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 221:
      It is unthinkable for a straight play to enjoy a life span like those of the blockbuster musicals or to earn such astronomical grosses.
  2. (probably archaic or obsolete) A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale.

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Adjective

musical m or f (masculine and feminine plural musicals)

  1. musical

Derived terms

Noun

musical m (plural musicals)

  1. musical

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Danish

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Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.

Noun

musical c (singular definite musicalen, plural indefinite musicaler or musicals)

  1. A musical.

Inflection

Declension of musical
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative musical musicalen musicaler
musicals 		musicalerne
genitive musicals musicalens musicalers
musicals' 		musicalernes

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin mūsicālis. By surface analysis, musique +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

Adjective

musical (feminine musicale, masculine plural musicaux, feminine plural musicales)

  1. musical

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Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: mizikal
  • → Persian: موزیکال (muzikâl)
  • → Turkish: müzikal

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Anagrams

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /musiˈkal/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cal

Adjective

musical m or f (plural musicais)

  1. musical; of or pertaining to music
    Synonym: músico

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.

Pronunciation

Noun

musical (plural musicalek)

  1. musical (a show or film which involves singing, dancing and musical numbers)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative musical musicalek
accusative musicalt musicaleket
dative musicalnek musicaleknek
instrumental musicallel musicalekkel
causal-final musicalért musicalekért
translative musicallé musicalekké
terminative musicalig musicalekig
essive-formal musicalként musicalekként
essive-modal — —
inessive musicalben musicalekben
superessive musicalen musicaleken
adessive musicalnél musicaleknél
illative musicalbe musicalekbe
sublative musicalre musicalekre
allative musicalhez musicalekhez
elative musicalből musicalekből
delative musicalről musicalekről
ablative musicaltől musicalektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		musicalé musicaleké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		musicaléi musicalekéi
Possessive forms of musical
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. musicalem musicaljeim
2nd person sing. musicaled musicaljeid
3rd person sing. musicalje musicaljei
1st person plural musicalünk musicaljeink
2nd person plural musicaletek musicaljeitek
3rd person plural musicaljük musicaljeik

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Interlingua

Pronunciation

Adjective

musical

  1. musical (relating to music)

Synonyms

Italian

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Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.

Pronunciation

Noun

musical m (invariable)

  1. musical

References

  1. ^ musical in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

musical m (definite singular musicalen, indefinite plural musicaler, definite plural musicalene)

  1. form removed by a 1982 spelling decision; superseded by musikal

Occitan

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Adjective

musical m (feminine singular musicala, masculine plural musicals, feminine plural musicalas)

  1. musical (of or relating to music)
  2. musical (pleasing to the ear)

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Piedmontese

Pronunciation

Adjective

musical

  1. musical

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Polish

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English musical, from Middle English musical, from Old French, from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica + -ālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mjuˈzi.kal/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ikal
  • Syllabification: mu‧si‧cal

Noun

musical m inan

  1. (film, music, theater) musical (stage performance, show or film)

Declension

Declension of musical
singular plural
nominative musical musicale
genitive musicalu musicali
dative musicalowi musicalom
accusative musical musicale
instrumental musicalem musicalami
locative musicalu musicalach
vocative musicalu musicale

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adjective

Further reading

  • musical in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • musical in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From música (“music”) +‎ -al (“of or relating to”).

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cal

Adjective

musical m or f (plural musicais)

  1. musical (of or relating to music)
  2. musical (pleasing to the ear)
    Synonyms: melodioso, melódico

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:musical.

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Noun

musical m (plural musicais)

  1. musical (stage performance, show or film that focuses on singing and dancing)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:musical.

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /musiˈkal/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: mu‧si‧cal

Adjective

musical m or f (masculine and feminine plural musicales)

  1. musical

Derived terms

Noun

musical m (plural musicales)

  1. musical

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